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BUNKER 1G61. Works: Descent of Holy Ghost, Assumption, Bordeaux Museum. Ch. Blanc, Ecole franyaise. BUNKER HILL, BATTLE OF, John 1 Trumbull, Yale College Gallery, New Haven, i Conn. ; Fought on Breed's Hill, near Boston, June 17, 1775. The British troops have just become masters of the field, the Ameri- cans sullenly falling back ; in centre, Gen- eral Warren, dying, supported by a soldier on his knees who wards off with one hand the bayonet of a British grenadier ; Colonel Small, of the British army, is also seizing the soldier's musket ; behind him is Colonel Pitcairn, mortally wounded ; Generals Howe and Clinton are behind the principal group, and General Putnam is ordering a retreat. BUNNER, ANDREW FISHER, born in j New York, in 1841. Landscape painter ; studied five years in Germany, France, and Italy. First exhibited at National Academy, | New York, in 18C7. Elected an A. N. A., in j 1880. Went to Venice in 1882 and is still (1885) living there. Works : Fishing Boats on the Maas (1880) ; San Giorgio Maggiore Venice (1881) ; off the Campo Santo, Canal dei Mati, II Campiello (1882) ; San ; Giorgio della Salute, La Guidecca, Rio della Verona (1883) ; San Andrea, Venetian Gar- den (1884) ; Canale San Severe, San Marsil- ian, Casa dei Pescatori, Rio del Aqua (1885). BUONACCORSI. See Vaya. BUONAMICI. See Tassi. BUONAMICO. See Buffalmacco. BUONARROTI See Michelangelo. BUONCONSIGLIO, GIOVANNI, of Vi- cenza, flourished 1497-1530. Commonly called II Marescalco. Probably assistant to Speranza, where he felt the influence of the Paduan school ; subsequently took Autouello da Messina for his model. Painted alter- nately in Vicenza, in Venice, and in the neighbouring provinces. Style much like that of Benedetto Montagna, but while he improved by study of Carpaccio, Buoncon- siglio formed his style under the influence of Antonello and Gio. Bellini. Among his best works are the Virgin and Child in San Rocco, Vicenza, painted in 1502 ; Christ be- tween two Saints, in the Gesuiti, Venice ; and the Virgin, Child, and Saints, three pictures, 1511-1513, much restored, in the Duomo of Montagnaua (near Vicenza); Lam- entation over dead body of Christ, Gallery, Vicenza; Altai-pieces at S. Giacomo dell Orto, and S. Spirito, Venice ; Madonna with Saints (1497), Venice Academy. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 436 ; Burckhardt, 604. BUONFIGLIO. See Bonfiyli. BUONINSEGNA. See Duccio di Buonin- segna. BURCHETT, RICHARD, born at Brigh- ton, England, in 1817, died in Dublin, in 1875. History painter, pupil of School of Design at Somerset House, London, of which he was assistant master in 1845, and head master in 1851. He was the master of Elizabeth Thompson Butler, of Luke Fildes, and of W. W. Ouless. Works : Ed- ward IV. withheld by Ecclesiastics from pursuing Lancastrians into a Church, Ex- pulsion of Peasants from New Forest by William the Conqueror, portraits of Tudors in Houses of Parliament. BtiRCK, I1EINRICH, born in Dresden, Nov. 27, 1850. History and genre painter ; pupil of Dresden Academy under Theod. Grosse, in Antwerp under Pauwels, and in Berlin under Karl Gussow ; was in Italy in 1875-78. Works : Helgi and Sigur (1873); In the Abruzzi, In the Woods (1877); Per- seus and Andromeda (1880). Muller, 85. BURCKMAIR (Burgkmair), HANS, the elder, born in Augsburg in 1473, died there, 1531. German school ; history and portrait painter; son and pupil of Thoman B., and pupil of Schongauer, though influ- enced in some respects by Diirer. Master of the Augsburg guild in 1498. Probably sau